BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

 Newsbeat analysis

Use BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1. Select a Newsbeat bulletin (8am or 12.45pm are good options) and then answer the following questions: 


1) What news stories were featured in the bulletin you listened to?


-Politics

-Sports

-Celebrities


2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience?


Framing the content through an informal tone, quick overviews, upbeat links and audience participation.


3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster? 


Radio 1's remit states that it must provide news and not just music alone.




Media Factsheet #246: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

1) How is the history and launch of Radio 1 summarised in the factsheet? If you studied this as part of GCSE Media you will already know much of this.
Newsbeat started in 1973, it was the only radio station that people in the UK could legally listen to Radio 1 was an instant hit. The programming was mainly around entertainment

2) Look at page 3 of the factsheet. How is Radio 1 attempting to appeal to its 15-29 age demographic? 
It aims to entertain and engage young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music and speech.
3) What did young people used to get from radio? Focus on audience pleasures / Uses & Gratifications here (see top of second column on page 3).
•To connect themselves to popular culture products (identity).
• To gain an insight into the world beyond their own experience:relationships, romance, politics (information and surveillance).
• To build para-social relationships with media personalities
(both musicians and DJs) – create fandoms.
• For pure entertainment.

4) How has Radio 1 and Newsbeat in particular diversified its content for the digital age? 
Radio 1 has diversified its content beyond the studio, from Live Lounge sessions to a Big Weekend of live music, its output is wide and diverse.

5) How is Newsbeat constructed to appeal to audiences? 
The way young people access both music and news has irrevocably changed and traditional radio stations are struggling to compete with other platforms.

6) What are the three key ideas from David Hesmondhalgh and which apply to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Cultural Industries are made to create profit.
Content production is made by ‘symbol creators’.
The internet has not challenged the centralised power of providers or allowed audiences to challenge content: alongside access it to criticise.

7) Now look at Curran and Seaton. What are their key ideas and can they be applied to Radio 1 Newsbeat? 
The media is concentrated in the hands of powerful commercial media giants: growth to become BBC and a main media coporation.
Culture is controlled by social elites.

8) What key idea for Livingstone and Lunt is on the factsheet and how does it link to the CSP?
Media can have a citizen-based approach to regulation:BBC in the interest of others as they pay the license fee to get access to there media.

9) How can we apply Stuart Hall's Reception theory to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
The BBC tries to appeal to young people with its content, but it faces competition from other platforms that appear to be catering for them in a better, more appealing way.

10) Choose one other audience theory on the factsheet and explain how it links to Radio 1 Newsbeat.
Newsbeat could satisfy the need for information and surveillance. Radio 1 has many aspects of entertainment.


Industry contexts: reading and research


1) Pick out three key points in the 'Summary' section.
The BBC is the UK’s most widely-used media organisation, providing programming on television and radio and content online
This sets binding conditions, requiring the BBC to deliver for licence feepayers. It is also our job to scrutinise, measure and report on the BBC’s performance.
research into audience opinions and expectations of the BBC. 

2) Now read what the license framework will seek to do (letters a-h). Which of these points could we relate to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Require the BBC to reflect the full diversity of the UK population: as it provides a range of diverse shows and host of their content.

3) Which do you think are the three most important aspects in the a-h list? Why?
Safeguard vulnerable genres such as arts, music and religious programmes as it gives audience of such backgrounds to feel grounded and not discriminated against.

4) Read point 1.9: What do Ofcom plan to review in terms of diversity and audience? 
 an in-depth review of how different audiences are represented and portrayed on the BBC
and examine the on-screen diversity of the BBC’s programming, including in its popular peak time shows reflects and portrays the lives of all people across the whole of the UK, ranging from younger and older audiences to diverse communities.

5) Based on your reading and research, do you think BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat offers licence fee payers good value for money?
Yes i think the license fee is a good value of money as the BBC follows and obliges to their mission statement and try to go out of their way to include and make all people from different background be represented.

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